Mr. Bosomworth is an Executive Vice President and a Senior Portfolio Manager for PIMCO Fixed Income Portfolio Management in Munich, where he leads the Derivatives team and the Money Market team. He joined the group in 2001 and was previously associated with the European Central Bank as a Senior Economist and Portfolio Manager. Prior to that he was a Vice President in swaps trading and international fixed income and currency research at Merrill Lynch, and economist at the New Zealand Treasury. Mr. Bosomworth has fourteen years of investment experience, holds a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from Lincoln University, a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and graduated from the Advanced Studies Program in International Policy Research at the Kiel Institute, Germany.